Jinyan Li, PhD Associate Professor, School of Computer Engineering Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798 Tel: (65) 67906253 (office) Office room: Academic North N4, #02a-30 Email: jyli@ntu.edu.sg

Academic Teaching

• AY 2007-08: Introductory Bioinformatics, Database Systems (Tutorials and Labs), Data Mining (CE7405)
• AY 2008-09: Introductory Bioinformatics, Database Systems (Tutorials and Labs), Data Mining (CI6227), Advanced Data Management Techniques (SC442, CPE403, CSC403).
• AY 2009-10: Introductory Bioinformatics, Database Systems (Tutorials and Labs), Data Mining (CE7405).

Research Interests and Publications

• Data mining, graph theory, emerging patterns, bioinformatics (protein binding site modeling, the O-ring theory, the Double Water Exclusion hypothesis, gene expression and proteomic profiling data analysis).
• publications.

DataCutting Technologies---Computational Algorithms Invented by Jinyan and His Team

• Mining of Discriminative Patterns: emerging patterns, contrast sets, odds ratio patterns, relative risk patterns, chi-squared patterns, etc.
• Interaction and Graph Mining: hubs, cliques, bipartites.
• Classification Methods: PCL, CS4, and DeEPs.
• Tipping Patterns and Tipping Factors.
• O-ring theory and double water exclusion hypothesis for binding hot spots (hotspots) at protein interfaces.

Winner of the Gold Award at the 2003 Asian Innovation Awards competition

• Team members: Jinyan Li, Huiqing Liu, Limsoon Wong, and Allen Yeoh (NUH, Singapore).
• Contribution: A single test platform for accurate prediction of outcome in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia by gene expression profiling.
• Full story coverage available at Page 40-41, Issue November 6, 2003, Far Eastern Economic Review.

Kent Ridge Biomedical Data Set Repository

Current Professional Services

• Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Information Technology (IJIT).
• Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics (IJDMB).
• Co-guest Editor: IEEE Intelligent Systems Special Issue on Data Mining for Bioinformatics.November 2005.
• Program Committee Member
  • PAKDD [2010; 2009, Bankok; 2008 (Vice Chair), Osaka; 2007 Area Chair, Nanjing; 2006, Singapore; 2005, Hanoi.]
  • DS [2007, Sendai; 2006, Barcelona; 2005, Singapore.]
  • WAIM [2009, Suzhou; 2008, Zhangjiajie; 2007, Huangshan; 2005, Hangzhou; 2003, Chengdu.]
  • ECML/PKDD [2008, Antwerp, Belgium; 2005, Porto.]
  • DASFAA [2008, New Delhi; 2007, Bangkok; 2006, Singapore.]
  • DaWak [2007, Regensburg; 2006, Krakow.]
  • ICDM [2007, Omaha NE, USA; 2006, Hong Kong; 2005, New Orleans.]
  • ICML [ 2006, Pittsburgh.]
  • SIGKDD [2009, Paris; 2008, Las Vegas; 2007, San Jose.]
  • SDM [2009; 2008, Atlanta.]
  • ACM SAC DM track [2010; 2009; 2008.]
  • APBC [2009, Beijing; 2008, Kyoto, Japan; 2007, Hong Kong; 2006, Taibei; 2005, Singapore.]
  • ICTAI [2006, Washington D.C.]
  • BIBE [2007, Boston]
  • BIBM [2009 (for CSB workshop); 2007 (PC member and Workshop Chair), San Jose]
  • PRICAI [ 2006, Guilin.]
  • CIDM [2007, Hawaii.]
  • SEAL [2008.]
  • AI [AI05, Sydney.]
• Publicity Co-chair of the Second International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA 2006), Xi'An, China, 14 - 16 Aug, 2006.
• PC co-chair BioDM (Workshop on Data Mining for Biomedical Applications) [ 2007, Nanjing; 2006, Singapore.]

Education Background and Qualifications

• PhD (2001), Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne. Thesis title: Mining Emerging Patterns to Construct Accurate and Efficient Classifiers, its abstract.
• M.Eng. (1994) in Computer Science, Hebei University of Technology, China.
• B.Sc. (1991) in Mathematics, National University of Defence Technology, Changsha, China.